@relaxer06 I’m in the same situation you are
@DNuge98 exactly. I got 20 mins so now my score will be negatively affected.
@anBoa122 Same. In march I got a 1560 and I’ve been prepping ever since. I was hoping for a 1650-1700 but now that isn’t possible.
@superstar16 Don’t worry. Just keep trying and you’ll definitely get better. I was really hoping to actually to make this my last SAT with a higher score than my first try, but I already know where I messed up and the situation doesn’t look too good. One theory that has been circulating around is that CB would have a lenient curve to prevent more controversy from their mistake.
College board has changed the information on their website 3 times… and their twitter account has had inaccurate information. I would not be a bit surprised if they change it again and say it’s going to take longer get the scores back…
BTW now they are saying on twitter that both 8 & 9 will not be scored. So at least now they are telling everyone the same thing.
We should be fighting for a partial refund! The College Board charged us for a 10(9) section test yet they are only going to score 7 of those sections. Therefore, our scores are not reflecting what the test we paid to take. So we should force them to either issue a partial refund or offer a free retake.
My son was given 25 minutes for section 8 and 25 minutes for section 9 even though he’s taken enough practice tests to know that he should have had only 20 minutes each. I wish his proctor had been better informed, but it sounds like even those whose proctors knew the right way to administer those sections are being affected by this. I would like the CB to show some kind of proof that the scores are going to be accurate or “reliable” as they say. There are algorithms that can simulate missing data (which the thrown out scores basically are now) but my mathematician friend estimates that they are about 80% reliable. I’d like to see what data the College Board can produce to prove that their scores will still be accurate with the two missing sections. Their answers thus far amount to “trust us” and right now, nobody really does.
Even if the sections are not counted they should be scored and provided to test takers for informational purposes.
IMO not scoring the sections is part of covering up the extent of the scoring discrepancies caused by their mistake.
I think they owe refund to all test takers. We signed up under belief we would get same service that has always been given and did not receive that service.
Also of note- nearly everyone pays for the testing with a credit card and credit cards offer guarantee on products and services purchased with their card.
Anyone canceling??
They should release both scores (with and without 8 and 9) and let the colleges make of them what they will. They should have a summer retake for anyone interested and offer it free of charge.
I took my SAT with accommodations and, for some odd reason, did not have an experimental section in my test booklet…so if they ARE going to replace one of the sections with the Experimental, what are people like me going to do?!
There is no doubt that EVERYONE will suffer from this–yes, including the people whose scores will actually benefit from this adjustment. Why? Because College Board’s apparently ‘accurate’ method of scoring the test is far from ‘accurate’…averaging the mistakes from the other two sections and applying that to the 3rd? REALLY?
No matter what we’d like to think, there IS going to be a stigma associated with this test. Even if I get my test back with a good score, what choice will I have but to retake it out of fear that colleges will treat my score differently?
I feel like a single, helpless student in a sea of victims trying to combat a large, money-grabbing corporation. We try to fight back and what do we get? Generic BS from College Board’s scripts. What are we supposed to do?
@TNE2011 I agree that I’d like to see both sets of scores for my son and be offered a free retest after he has a chance to see both sets of scores, but I’m not sure what colleges would make of two sets to choose from. It might take them a while to figure out how they would interpret those scores. Would colleges want to be notified in some way which set of scores they were sent?
I agree with the following paragraph I read in another site: “They were worried about a 5 mins advantage for kids. Well, now all kids who did better on the section that will be eliminated will get screwed, and those who did worse on that section will get the advantage because it won’t be scored. Not what we paid for folks, and as far as I’m concerned, not a valid SAT score.”
In addition, those who did better on those sections and are now being screwed, will have their other sections graded more harshly, because each error reduces their grade more! So, their stupid solution is actually causing more problems. I prefer them grading all sections like before, and then letting the kids decide if they would like to retake without a charge.
I don’t believe that a “reliable” score is te same as an “accurate” score. Test takers paid for and expected “accurate” test scores.
Is the PSAt an accurate score prediction? If so, is this not the same exact amount of questions for math and cr? Compare a PSAT score report difficulty of questions and the equivalent report for an SAT , they are the same.
Does anybody know how the curve will be this time?
Will it have a great impact on the score report?
My favorite comment from the Board: “To accommodate the wide range of incidents that can impact a testing experience, the SAT is designed to collect enough information to provide valid and reliable scores even with an additional unscored section. From fire drills and power outages to mistiming and disruptive behavior, school-based test administrations can be fragile, so our assessments are not.”
How many times have they not scored sections for an incident like this and for the entire country? Seriously.
I also like their humble, superhuman assessment of themselves -“our assessments are not [fragile]”
@schaefse The College Board has fully proven its incompetence by now.